Southern Weekly

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Southern Weekly

在这里读懂中国 (Understand China here.)
Type	Weekly newspaper (Thur.)
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Nanfang Media Group
Founder(s)	Zuo Fang
Publisher	Southern Weekly Press
Editor-in-chief	Huang Can
Managing editor, design	Zhou Yiping
Founded	11 February 1984; 40 years ago (1984-02-11)
Language	Simplified Chinese
Headquarters	289 Central Guangzhou Avenue, Guangzhou, Guangdong
City	Guangzhou, Guangdong
Country	China
Readership	1.7 million
Sister newspapers	Southern Daily, etc.
OCLC number	47997289
Website	infzm.com
Media of China List of newspapers

Southern Weekly (Chinese: 南方周末; lit. 'Southern Weekend') is a Chinese weekly newspaper based in Guangzhou, and is a sister publication of the newspaper Nanfang Daily. From the 1990s to the early 2010s, the newspaper was renowned for its investigative journalism, liberal stance, and influence among intellectual readers. The New York Times described the Southern Weekly as "China's most influential liberal newspaper".^[1] After the 2013 Southern Weekly incident, the newspaper and the market-oriented media it represented began to decline in China.^[2]